Tag: The Velvet Underground

• Text, Telos, and Ritual

  I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound To the memories of yesterday’s clouds I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound And now I’m set free I’m set free to find a new illusion — “I’m Set Free,” The Velvet Underground “As time goes on… the universe becomes more and more what experience has revealed,…

  suspendedreason

  October 11, 2016

  Essays

  Abraham Maslow, Andrew Barnes, Ann Shulgin, Aretha Franklin, Beethoven, classical music, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Herman Pleij, Jamie XX, John Dewey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Judith Butler, Lewis Mumford, literature, Luke Turner, Maggie Nelson, Mark Richardson, metamodernism, modernism, multi-armed bandit, narrative rationality, Nate Soares, New Sincerity, PiHKaL, pop, pop music, postmodernism, psychedelics, Ribbonfarm, ritual, Rutger Bregman, sacrament, Sarah Perry, Steven Pinker, Tao Lin, teleology, The Sublemon, The Velvet Underground, utopia, Venkatesh Rao

• Our Brand Could Be Your Life

  1. Belgian metafictionist Jean-Philippe Toussaint, like many of his postmodern peers, focuses the attention of his novels not just on their immediate stories but on how stories in general operate: the ways that truth and artifice intersect or overlap, and how narrators can bias narrative or vice-versa. In Bodega Bay’s debut LP Our Brand Could Be…

  suspendedreason

  August 24, 2015

  Essays

  Aiko Masubuchi, Ben Hozie, Bodega Bay, Elaine Scarry, Joe Wakeman, lo-fi, music criticism, pop music, The Velvet Underground